Holistic Life Navigation
320 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago -This podcast explores holistic stress and trauma recovery. I am your host, Luis Mojica. My work, Holistic Life Navigation, was modeled after my own journey in healing myself from chronic illness and PTSD. I share this podcast with many brilliant minds who, like me, healed themselves through unique, unusual, and unorthodox ways.
For more information, please visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com.
Written, produced and recorded by Luis Mojica. Edited by Fredo Viola. Intro/outro song: "Witch Love" by Luis Mojica.
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Episodes
[Ep. 166] Navigating The Stereotypes Of Privilege
October 01, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBOn today’s episode, the HLN team talks privilege, and brings nuance to the complex topic. The discuss: privilege vs. privileges the assumptions behind privilege and marginalization bringing curiosity to the experience orienting to ourselves first how context impacts marginalization, and how it can be fluid how shame and guilt are unhelpful to everyone how performative allyship is a form of fawning The process of making the unconscious conscious, as with all somatic practices, applie...
[Bonus Episode] Songwriting & Transmuting Trauma w/ Heavybird (Evan Glenn Adams)
September 26, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBOn today's episode, Luis is joined by musician, producer, and sound healing practitioner Evan Glenn Adams. They discuss Evan's solo music project Heavybird (@heavybirdmusic), and his newest album, "a lit candle in an empty room." The album was written during the pandemic as a way to understand and process his personal experience, with the hope of it connecting with other's experiences as well. They discuss: using songwriting as a way to navigate and process trauma the ways music has affec...
[Ep. 165] How Chemical Fragrances Are Causing Your Anxiety (& Other Hormonal Issues) w/ Karen Hurd
September 24, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBOn today's episode, Luis and Karen discuss how perfume and other chemical fragrances effect our bodies. Since they can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin, many of us are constantly bathed in them: either in our home, our workplace, or out in the world. In this episode, we cover the ways that the body reacts. Perfumes and other synthetic fragrances: Stimulate a physiological hormonal response Can change the expression of DNA, and turn on and off genes Are more damaging and pervasive ...
[Bonus Episode] She Watched Her Daughter Nearly Die & Didn't Get Traumatized w/ Camille Leak
September 20, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBOn today's episode, Luis follows up with Camille about her experience with Khadija in the NICU and how her body was, and is, responding. Camille shows us firsthand what it looks like to use somatic embodiment practices to prevent serious overwhelm and potential traumatization. They discuss the following practices and topics: · choosing what to attune to vs. bypassing and toxic positivity · orienting to the present, and using the present as a resource · pendulating during intense experie...
[Ep. 164] Navigating Panic Attacks
September 17, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBOn today’s episode, Luis discusses an often-requested topic: navigating panic attacks. Luis shares his personal experience with panic attacks, starting at the age of sixteen, that lead to multiple hospitalizations, and tests that yielded no clear results. By learning a somatic approach, Luis has been able to prevent them before they happen, through understanding that panic attacks are an electrical charge that overtakes the body's systems. Luis discusses how daily embodied practices can h...
[Bonus Episode] Mid-Day Medicine Series: Parenting, Family, & Somatics w/ Jaguar Mary X
September 13, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBThis is a bonus episode which features an interview with Luis and Jaguar Mary X. They had Luis on their program called Midday Medicine Journey. It's a live, public radio out of Kingston, NY. You can find the entire episode here. For more information about Jaguar Mary X, visit: https://www.kaliartproject.com/ You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatics-of-freeze You can register for the webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenaviga...
[Ep. 163] Identity Is Such A Drag: Letting Ourselves Compost w/ Sophie Strand
September 10, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBOn today's episode, Luis speaks with Sophie Strand, self-described writer, compost heap, and neo-troubadour animist. Together they explore identity as a strategy: sometimes useful, sometimes not, but never the truth. Often when there is low capacity for ambiguity, the identity is the strategy born from that, fueled by desire for stability. Luis and Sophie discuss: · not getting trapped in the idea of self, and leaving openness for fluidity and change · the mythical and animistic experien...
[Bonus Episode] Tori Amos, Musical Shamanism, & Conscious Self-Destruction w/ Noah Michelson
September 06, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBOn today's episode, Luis has a conversation with Noah Michelson, editor at HuffPost Personal, over their shared love of Tori Amos, and the way her music has helped them explore their own traumas. Tori Amos shares so honestly (both through her music and her personality), and they discuss how it has a way of making others feel seen, and how it can be life saving to experience. The also explore topics including: art and transmutation of painful experiences how musicians can awaken partswork...
[Ep. 162] Navigating Anger & Rage
September 03, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBOn today's episode, Luis explores how we often overcouple anger with rage, violence, oppression, and harm, and how it doesn’t always have to equate. He discusses: the relationship between boundaries, anger, and rage the difference between stress and trauma how rage is a thwarted fight response, repressed by a freeze or fawn response the relation between anger and fight response how rage is often released during incongruent events The episode ends with a somatic exercise on how to rele...
[Bonus Episode] Somatic Drop-In Replay | Aug 15 2023
August 30, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBToday’s bonus episode is a recording of the most recent Somatic Drop-In. Luis takes us through a variety of topics and practices as he invites us to drop in, play with the philosophy and techniques of somatic work, and see what we learn. This Somatic Drop-In focused on overwhelm, and the relationship between overwhelm, boundaries, and capacity. Luis invites participants to share, and together he and Camille riff on related topics, including the nuance of whether it's safe to express a bound...
[Ep. 161] Holding Grief with Gratitude w/ Carolyn Carter
August 27, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBWe welcome back friend of the show, Carolyn Waiters Carter, a human development professional, poet, and somatic relational coach. Carolyn generously shares with us a story of grief, grace, grit and gratitude. She feels called to to share her grief journey after her beautiful beloved only daughter China transitioned in November 2021 from a long heroic journey with kidney disease, autoimmune disease, and a rare cancer at the age 41. She shares the alchemic sacred wisdom and divine mercy that...
[Bonus Episode] Mid-Day Medicine Series: Change & Acceptance w/ Jaguar Mary X
August 23, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBThis is a bonus episode which features an interview with Luis and Jaguar Mary X. They had Luis on their program called Midday Medicine Journey. It's a live, public radio out of Kingston, NY. You can find the entire episode here. For more information about Jaguar Mary X, visit: https://www.kaliartproject.com/ You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatics-of-freeze You can register for the webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenaviga...
[Ep. 160] Navigating Sexual Turn On: Pleasure or Overwhelm?
August 20, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBOn today's episode, Luis explores the sensations and stories behind our kinks, sexual desires, and turn-ons. Luis discusses the complicated relationship that can occur between overwhelm, fear, and turn-on. He invites us to explore the following question: "do I experience relief, openness, tenderness, and a deeper connection to myself and the other from sexual experiences, or does the thrill, the fear response, the stress and trauma response that these sexual fetishes and kinks bring up exha...
[Bonus Episode] "Soul & Psyche" Replay
August 16, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBToday’s podcast episode is a repost from the “Soul & Psyche” podcast, where Luis and Otto Maier discuss topics that include art as therapy, the mystical experience, animism, and more. Otto is a trained and Certified Psychedelic Integration guide, Jungian Coach, Ceremony facilitator, Kambo practitioner, and Breathwork facilitator for retreat centers around the world. You can listen to the “Soul & Psyche” podcast here. You can learn more about Otto's work here: https://www.soulpsyche.org/ ...
[Ep. 159] The Body Prayer: Somatics & Christianity w/ Anita Grace Brown
August 13, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Anita Brown, a grooveologist, yoga teacher, and writer. Luis and Anita have a fascinating conversation about the sole of somatics within Christianity. Both Luis and Anita were raised within the Catholic tradition and they discuss the impact of those experiences, the concept of embodied praying, and how religious pluralism shows up in their lives. Also, Anita shares with us how the integration of yoga as well as other Hindu and Buddhist teachings supported ...
[Ep. 158] Navigating The Somatics Of Lying (How To Build Capacity For Honesty)
August 06, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBOn today's episode, Luis discusses the somatics of lying. In his own words:“lying is what I do when I don’t have the capacity for how you may respond to my truth.” Some of the topics he covers include: lying as a strategy to give us space understanding (thinking) vs. experience (somatic) exploring what lying really is, how we experience it, and what are our stories around it lying and fawning The process of releasing lying is twofold: once we build capacity for our own truth, we then h...
[Ep. 157] Capacity Is What Creates Success w/ Simone Grace Seol
July 30, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Simone Grace Seol, a life coach and business mentor. Simone explains why business can and has to be relational in order for it to be sustainable. Although it can be counterintuitive, Luis and Simone discuss why slowing down and building a relationship with the body and the nervous system actually provides people with the capacity to make money over the long term. They share how they've observed, both personally and professionally, how bypassing the needs ...
[Ep. 156] The HLN Team Talks About Cancel Culture
July 23, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBOn today's episode, the HLN Team discusses cancel culture. From the perspective of the person or organization being "cancelled", cancelling can only exist if you aren’t in your integrity or authenticity. Cancelling is often rooted in the fawn response, especially from the corporate perspective. In order to be "on the right side of history", organizations will often flip their messaging to reflect whatever feels safest for them. From the perspective of the group pushing for cancellation, mo...
[Bonus Episode] Navigating Self-Sabotage with IRF w/ Maureen Gallagher
July 19, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBToday's podcast episode is a replay from the special session Maureen Gallagher offered during the Spring 2023 six week course. Maureen discusses her own personal experiences, how she uses IRF, and then takes us through a demo with Victoria. You can learn more about Victoria Platt here: https://www.ielevateme.com/ You can learn more about Maureen Gallagher, and her available courses, here: https://embodyingpsychotherapy.com/ You can learn more about Luis' six week course, and sign up for t...
[Ep. 155] When Identity Starts To Constrict You w/ Anne Connor
July 16, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Anne Connor, a trauma-informed educator, energy healer and certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). However, being an SEP is not all that Anne and Luis have in common. In this episode that both share how the identity constructs of "Wicca" and "Witch" once served them but then there came a time where they began to experience incongruence and constriction surrounding those identities and terms. They discuss why identity constructs can be both he...
[Bonus Episode] Somatic Drop-In Replay | June 06 2023
July 12, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 50 MBToday’s bonus episode is a recording of the most recent Somatic Drop-In. Luis takes us through a variety of topics and practices as he invites us to drop in, play with the philosophy and techniques of somatic work, and see what we learn. These Somatic Drop-Ins are bi-monthly, public, pay-what-you-want offerings. You can view the upcoming schedule to attend one live here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events-1 You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlif...
[Ep. 154] Pleasure Eating: The Somatics Of Binging & Recovery w/ Lacou Flipse
July 09, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Lacou Flipse, a binge eating recovery coach and creator of the Pleasure Eating Process. Luis and Lacou discuss their shared history of binge eating, and how somatic awareness builds our capacity to bring attention to the feelings that are underneath the urge to binge. Lacou shares how much confusion and shame she once experienced around binge eating recovery, and how hard it was to talk about her story. However, through the practice of becoming embodied, ...
Pleasure Eating: The Somatics Of Binging & Recovery w/ Lacou Flipse
July 09, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Lacou Flipse, a binge eating recovery coach and creator of the Pleasure Eating Process. Luis and Lacou discuss their shared history of binge eating, and how somatic awareness builds our capacity to bring attention to the feelings that are underneath the urge to binge. Lacou shares how much confusion and shame she once experienced around binge eating recovery, and how hard it was to talk about her story. However, through the practice of becoming embodied, ...
[Bonus Episode] Mid-Day Medicine Series: The Sweetness Of Death w/ Jaguar Mary X
July 05, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBThis is a bonus episode which features an interview with Luis and Jaguar Mary X. They had Luis on their program called Midday Medicine Journey. It's a live, public radio out of Kingston, NY. You can find the entire episode, and others, by visiting them here. For more information about Jaguar Mary X, visit: https://www.kaliartproject.com/ You can register for the upcoming webinar, "Sexual Fetish, Fawning, and Trauma," here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/healing-from-sexual...
The Medicine Of Becoming Stoppable w/ Paul Simard (Sacred Sons)
July 02, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Paul Simard, Executive Coordinator at Sacred Sons. Drawing upon ancient wisdom and modern technologies of human development, Sacred Sons utilizes the power of ceremony, ritual, and intentional spaces to deepen into authentic brotherhood and catalyze growth in men in order to teach healthy masculinity. Paul shares with us his own life events that lead him to begin questioning what it means to be a man, eventually guiding him into men's healing work. Paul...
[Ep. 153] The Medicine Of Becoming Stoppable w/ Paul Simard (Sacred Sons)
July 02, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Paul Simard, Executive Coordinator at Sacred Sons. Drawing upon ancient wisdom and modern technologies of human development, Sacred Sons utilizes the power of ceremony, ritual, and intentional spaces to deepen into authentic brotherhood and catalyze growth in men in order to teach healthy masculinity. Paul shares with us his own life events that lead him to begin questioning what it means to be a man, eventually guiding him into men's healing work. Paul...
[Bonus Episode] Healing Sexual Trauma (A Free Email Series)
June 28, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBIn today's episode, Luis introduces some of the topics he's planning to cover during the free, three week email series he's offering, titled "Healing From Sexual Trauma." You can sign up here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/healing-from-sexual-trauma Sexual trauma can be caused by an array of experiences: if an event or events cause an overwhelm related to the charge of sexuality, it could potentially be a traumatizing experience. Luis discusses: the potential origins of sexual t...
[Ep. 152] Navigating Sickness As A Request Instead Of A Punishment
June 25, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBSickness isn’t a punishment being done to you, but a request coming from inside of you. In this episode, Luis explores a reframing of sickness, and how symptoms are the way that the body speaks to us without words. Symptoms are the messenger, and not the problem. They are the body's way of expressing something that is in perfect accordance with what it’s connecting or in relationship with. Luis then leads us through a guided exercise of noticing, feeling, and bringing curiosity and nonjudg...
Navigating Sickness As A Request Instead Of A Punishment
June 25, 2023 12:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBSickness isn’t a punishment being done to you, but a request coming from inside of you. In this episode, Luis explores a reframing of sickness, and how symptoms are the way that the body speaks to us without words. Symptoms are the messenger, and not the problem. They are the body's way of expressing something that is in perfect accordance with what it’s connecting or in relationship with. Luis then leads us through a guided exercise of noticing, feeling, and bringing curiosity and nonjudg...
[Bonus Episode] How To Liberate What Was Frozen In The Body w/ Jaguar Mary X (Midday Medicine Journey)
June 21, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBThis is a bonus episode which features an interview with Luis and Jaguar Mary X. They had Luis on their program called Midday Medicine Journey. It's a live, public radio out of Kingston, NY. You can find the entire episode, and others, by visiting them here. In this episode, Luis leads a somatic experiencing demo with Jaguar Mary X around a traumatizing event they experienced, and they discusses the way the trauma response works. For more information about Jaguar Mary X, visit: https://ww...
[Ep. 151] Releasing Identity & Belonging Inside of Ourselves w/ Inge Sengelmann
June 18, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Inge Sengelmann, a somatic resilience educator and integrative mind-body healer. Luis and Inge have a interesting conversation about the role of identity and belonging. They discuss how their experiences as White-passing, multi-cultural individuals has impacted them, as well as what it means to find a sense of belonging inside your body rather than in external groups, the difference between grasping at and exploring a sense of self, and why being present...
Releasing Identity & Belonging Inside of Ourselves w/ Inge Sengelmann
June 18, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Inge Sengelmann, a somatic resilience educator and integrative mind-body healer. Luis and Inge have a interesting conversation about the role of identity and belonging. They discuss how their experiences as White-passing, multi-cultural individuals has impacted them, as well as what it means to find a sense of belonging inside your body rather than in external groups, the difference between grasping at and exploring a sense of self, and why being present...
[Bonus Episode] Overcouplings & Prejudice: Accepting Your Bias Can Prevent Racism (The HLN Team w/ Special Guest Simone Grace Seol)
June 14, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBOn today's episode, the HLN team is joined by Simone Grace Seol, and they discuss overcouplings as they relate to race and prejudice. Simone had posted on Instagram about the phrase “I don’t see color", and Luis was curious to explore the statement through the lens of somatics. They discuss: the difference between your mind’s reactions and the body’s reactions the difference between innocence vs hiding behind innocence, and using it as a blindspot how somatics can destigmatize the work ...
Overcouplings & Prejudice: Accepting Your Bias Can Prevent Racism (The HLN Team w/ Special Guest Simone Grace Seol)
June 14, 2023 12:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBOn today's episode, the HLN team is joined by Simone Grace Seol, and they discuss overcouplings as they relate to race and prejudice. Simone had posted on Instagram about the phrase “I don’t see color", and Luis was curious to explore the statement through the lens of somatics. They discuss: the difference between your mind’s reactions and the body’s reactions the difference between innocence vs hiding behind innocence, and using it as a blindspot how somatics can destigmatize the work ...
[Ep. 150] A Somatic Approach To Money w/ HLN Team
June 11, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBWe welcome back the HLN team for another raucous conversation! In this episode, the HLN team explores the constriction many entrepreneurs experience around setting and raising their rates. They each share their own background and overcouplings with money and how it has impacted their ability to set their rates. They also discuss how money helps feed capacity for their work, the difference between cost and value, why people aren't entitled to their time, and the role of agency on both sett...
A Somatic Approach To Money w/ HLN Team
June 11, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBWe welcome back the HLN team for another raucous conversation! In this episode, the HLN team explores the constriction many entrepreneurs experience around setting and raising their rates. They each share their own background and overcouplings with money and how it has impacted their ability to set their rates. They also discuss how money helps feed capacity for their work, the difference between cost and value, why people aren't entitled to their time, and the role of agency on both sett...
[Bonus Episode] Navigating Liberating Sexual Trauma
June 07, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBIn today's episode, Luis discusses sexual fawning, fetishes, sexual trauma, and the notion of liberating them from our bodies so that we can experience vitality. Inspired by the feedback from a recent Instagram post, Luis decided to record a podcast episode, and to create an email series and webinar. You can sign up for the free, three week emails series, "Healing From Sexual Trauma," here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/healing-from-sexual-trauma. The first email goes out July 2nd...
[Ep. 149] Gender Dysphoria: The Pain & The Gifts w/ Caelan Manning
June 04, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBThis is a beautifully vulnerable, authentic, and potentially uncomfortable conversation between Luis and his dear friend Caelan Manning as they explore their similar and different experiences with gender dysphoria. They first share how they met and clicked due to being kindred spirits with Luis having feminine gender expressions and Caelan being transgender. This robust conversation explores a multitude of topics including contemplating suicide, the gift in delaying medical transitions, a...
Gender Dysphoria: The Pain & The Gifts w/ Caelan Manning
June 04, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBThis is a beautifully vulnerable, authentic, and potentially uncomfortable conversation between Luis and his dear friend Caelan Manning as they explore their similar and different experiences with gender dysphoria. They first share how they met and clicked due to being kindred spirits with Luis having feminine gender expressions and Caelan being transgender. This robust conversation explores a multitude of topics including contemplating suicide, the gift in delaying medical transitions, a...
Navigating Why It's So Hard To Be Present
May 28, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBIt can seem like it is or should be so simple but it much more elusive than we think: being present. In this episode, Luis explores why many of us avoid the highly sensational experience of being present -- low capacity. And while we often think having a low capacity for sensations means we avoid the "negative" sensations, it actually keeps us from experiencing the "positive" sensations as well. Luis reviews a multitude of behaviors we all employ to help us bypass, distract us from, or ...
[Ep. 148] Navigating Why It's So Hard To Be Present
May 28, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBIt can seem like it is or should be so simple but it much more elusive than we think: being present. In this episode, Luis explores why many of us avoid the highly sensational experience of being present -- low capacity. And while we often think having a low capacity for sensations means we avoid the "negative" sensations, it actually keeps us from experiencing the "positive" sensations as well. Luis reviews a multitude of behaviors we all employ to help us bypass, distract us from, or ...
[Bonus Episode] Somatic Drop-In Replay | April 25 2023
May 24, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBToday’s bonus episode is a recording of the most recent Somatic Drop-In. Luis takes us through a variety of topics and practices as he invites us to drop in, play with the philosophy and techniques of somatic work, and see what we learn. Luis explores: Noticing constriction and expansion within the body, and pendulating Practicing developing "the witnesser" Community intentions and shares, and a brief demo around numbness These Somatic Drop-Ins are bi-monthly, public, pay-what-you-want ...
What Is Manifesting? w/ Nisha Mody & James-Olivia
May 21, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBWe welcome back friends of HLN, James-Olivia and Nisha Mody! Nisha, James-Olivia, and Luis have a beautiful, existential conversation about a word that is all too easily thrown around -- manifesting. They first explore what it means to decolonize manifestation, i.e. to go from being in domination of to relationship with, and then explore a myriad of topics including: the literal definition of manifesting: to make apparent spiritual bypassing earning vs. manifesting making apparent wh...
[Ep. 147] What Is Manifesting? w/ Nisha Mody & James-Olivia
May 21, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBWe welcome back friends of HLN, James-Olivia and Nisha Mody! Nisha, James-Olivia, and Luis have a beautiful, existential conversation about a word that is all too easily thrown around -- manifesting. They first explore what it means to decolonize manifestation, i.e. to go from being in domination of to relationship with, and then explore a myriad of topics including: the literal definition of manifesting: to make apparent spiritual bypassing earning vs. manifesting making apparent wh...
[Ep. 146] Navigating Whiteness: Honoring Indigenous Europe
May 14, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBInspired by an article written by Lyla June, Reclaiming our Indigenous European Roots, Luis explores the dangers of denying and disowning our Whiteness. He first discusses why an overcoupling of Whiteness with "bad" can actually lead to fawning or performative allyship, i.e. behaviors that in reality do not support those who may be experiencing racism. But he further explores what many of us have not only gained but also lost in assimilating to the American White ideal and similarly, how ...
Navigating Whiteness: Honoring Indigenous Europe
May 14, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBInspired by an article written by Lyla June, Reclaiming our Indigenous European Roots, Luis explores the dangers of denying and disowning our Whiteness. He first discusses why an overcoupling of Whiteness with "bad" can actually lead to fawning or performative allyship, i.e. behaviors that in reality do not support those who may be experiencing racism. But he further explores what many of us have not only gained but also lost in assimilating to the American White ideal and similarly, how ...
[Bonus Episode] Fawning Series Q&A Replay
May 10, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBToday's episode is a replay of the Q&A from the fawning email series that Luis sent out in March. You can also listen to the podcast episode on fawning here, as well as purchase a webinar Luis did on fawning. Luis is also planning to develop a self-led course around fawning. When he does, it will be mentioned through the newsletter. You can register for the free email series here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatics-of-freeze You can register for the webinar here: https:...
[Ep. 145] Divine Masculinity: Playing with Our Inner Fire w/ Ean Wood
May 07, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Ean Wood, a writer, coach and facilitator of men's healing work. Luis and Ean explore what it means to be in balance with our masculinity and femininity. Whether you are a man, woman, non-binary, transgender, cisgender, intersex, queer, straight, etc., this episode is for you. Luis and Ean discuss the non-binary qualities of masculine and feminine energies. They also share their own experience with the impact of testosterone on the human body and how ma...
Divine Masculinity: Playing with Our Inner Fire w/ Ean Wood
May 07, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode, Luis is joined by Ean Wood, a writer, coach and facilitator of men's healing work. Luis and Ean explore what it means to be in balance with our masculinity and femininity. Whether you are a man, woman, non-binary, transgender, cisgender, intersex, queer, straight, etc., this episode is for you. Luis and Ean discuss the non-binary qualities of masculine and feminine energies. They also share their own experience with the impact of testosterone on the human body and how ma...
[Bonus Episode] Relational Commerce: Indigenous Wisdom For Modern Creators w/ Asha Frost
May 03, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBOn today's episode, Luis speaks with Asha Frost about the release of her oracle deck, while bringing in transparency around the full spectrum of emotions and experiences with its release. Typically, whenever someone releases some offering or creation, we talk about it in a very stimulated and excited way. Rarely do we talk about how it can overwhelm the body, or how easy it is to burn ourselves out, despite going through a positive experience. Asha shares how she was in a freeze response f...